This document discusses open innovation and citizen engagement in Amsterdam. It notes that cities need to better engage citizens through new technologies and platforms. Amsterdam has developed several initiatives to do so, including citizen engagement platforms, smart toolkits for issues like air pollution, and community currencies. Open innovation brings governance closer to citizens and helps make better use of their creativity. Amsterdam has created an open innovation ecosystem through hackathons, open data platforms, and crowdsourcing challenges to generate ideas from citizens. However, it notes that cities still need to be more adoptive of new technologies and that there is sometimes a mismatch between the pace of change citizens want and institutions can provide.
9. Tech gap ?
City
Citizens
• Local governance is decentralized,
‘silo’ culture. Incredibly tough to
introduce cross-sectoring theme’s
• Challenged by budget cuts.
• Generally risk-averse.
• 24 hours connected, action-minded
• Craving for immediate feed-back
from city.
• Cities are less adoptive with new
tech
Connected
24 hours
• They do care about the living,
reshaping the city
11. Different velocities - Citizens & their city…..
An encounter between digital
pioneers and an overcautious
mammoth…
12. >>Open innovation offers a way to cities to create
a more participatory government
and makes the best use of novel ICT solutions
while enhancing the creativity of the city based
entrepreneurs, hackers, civic innovators.
>>>Enabling a modern 21st century civil services
13. Open Innovation brought us back to
the citizens
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Citizen Engaging Platforms
Smart Toolkits (air pollution)
Community Currencies
Integrated part of Amsterdam Smart Cities
PPP- > Smart Citizens Program
36. Proud…
• 3 hackathons (apps for
Amsterdam)
• 68 city apps
• 22 workshops for civil servants
• 1 person responsible for data
collection
• 1 strong integral Open Data
vison (AEB)
37. Open Innovation Evolution in Amsterdam
• An established Civic Innovator, hacker network (2.600
members)
• OPEN DATA release & business incubation
• 300 datasets open in 2013
• 2010 – 0 eur budget
• 2013 – 1,5 M EUR budget
• Amsterdam local crowdsourcing portal
• Rich network of EU cities, SME’s, innovation agencies that help
local lobby
• 6 crowdsourced city challenges, 3 ICT fellows, a robust ICT back
end architecture from citySDK
38. Economic relevance op Open Innovation
• Transparency, participatory budgeting
• Start Up business Acceleration.
• Working towards a Civic Apps Store/ Marketplace
(Europe Commons).
• Ecosystem of cities, app developers, innovation agencies
strong USP for investors.
39. Conclusions Citizen Engagement
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Commit from policy level
Reward participation
Save money on interface interoperability
Power of Social Media
Power of Ecosystem
Look for EU collaborations (FI-PPP, Horizon 2020, ENOLL, Eurocities)
Create local hero’s for Civic engagement(policy level)